Latest in Tag: Syria Highlight
Latest in Tag: Syria
More civilians evacuated from Syria’s Homs: governor
The United Nations and Syria’s Red Crescent began operations to evacuate trapped civilians and deliver aid inside besieged parts of Homs on February 7.
Syria talks stalemate brings threat of worsening war: analysts
The timing of Idriss’s replacement by another senior military commander is significant, with analysts predicting that the most likely outcome of the peace talks stalemate will be a renewed focus by both sides on military operations.
UN refugee chief to visit Iran for talks about Afghans
Some five million Afghans driven by war, oppression and poverty have crossed the border into Iran and Pakistan in the past three decades, seeking better lives and jobs.
Most rebels have left Syria’s Yarmuk: Palestinian official
Yarmuk camp was once home to some 150,000 Palestinians, as well as Syrian residents.
Lebanon forms consensus govt after 10-month stalemate
Hezbollah is accused of participating in the 2005 assassination of Hariri’s father, former premier Rafiq Hariri, and five of its members are on trial in absentia before a special court in The Hague.
Obama vows to put more pressure on Assad regime
At the meeting Obama pledged $1bn in loan guarantees to Jordan, as well as a renewal of a five-year memorandum of understanding.
Syria foes meet for final talks as peace process flounders
The United Nations warned Friday that more than 2,700 refugees had poured across the Lebanese border as the Syrian army carries out an offensive in the Qalamun mountains and heads towards the opposition-held town of Yabrud.
UN-OPCW urges Syria to speed up destruction of chemical arms
Syria, Kaag said, was continuing to display “constructive cooperation” despite missing several deadlines to ship chemical material out of the country.
Attack raises fears about evacuation from Syria’s Homs
Another 300 people were killed as battles raged across Syria on Saturday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the latest deaths in a nearly three-year conflict that has killed 136,000 people and displaced millions.
Aleppo’s tears
By Dr Cesar Chelala “Aleppo was a large and terrifying town,” wrote the American writer Frederic Prokosch in his famed novel “The Asiatics”. This has been never truer than now, as I read about the barrel bomb attacks that have killed dozens of civilians just in a few days. I look at an October 2013 photograph of a …
Fahmy urges Syrian opposition unity
Foreign minister meets with Syrian opposition leaders in Cairo
Palestinians flee hunger and hell of besieged Syria camp
The camp began as a home for Palestinian refugees in the 1950s, but Yarmuk evolved over the decades into a bustling residential and commercial district, home to some 150,000 Palestinians as well as Syrians.
Baghdad bombs, one near foreign ministry, kill 24
The attacks, which wounded dozens more, come as security forces battle militants in the western Anbar province, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a powerful jihadist group that has exploited the chaos in neighbouring Syria.
Syria opposition chief presses Russia on Assad
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s team and the opposition made no progress on local ceasefires or permission for humanitarian corridors to some of the country’s more devastated cities such as Homs.
Baghdad attacks kill 16 as Iraq presses Anbar assault
The assassinations in particular harken back to Iraq’s brutal Sunni-Shi’a sectarian war which raged from 2006 to 2007, when corpses were often found abandoned on the streets, with the victims’ bodies bearing signs of torture.
Al-Qaeda disavows ISIL in Syria
Rebels have accused ISIL of seeking to consolidate power rather than fighting the regime, and even suggested the group was serving the regime’s interests.
Syria death toll tops 136,000, future talks uncertain
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll at the end of January was at least 136,227.
Talks over, little sign of progress towards Syria peace
Opposition National Coalition Chief Ahmad Jarba said the regime had failed to show “serious commitment” during the negotiations.
Syria will not make ‘any concessions’ in Geneva talks: Minister
Several hundred demonstrators cheered, waving Syrian flags in all sizes and giant pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, shouting “Bashar forever!”
20,000 people in Syria’s Yarmuk camp face starvation
Yarmuk soon became a war zone too, as Syrians taking up arms against President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime moved into the camp.
Reporter abuse-trading echoes Syria’s divide
The most recent international conferences of the so-called Friends of Syria countries only involved the opposition.
10 killed in days of clashes in Lebanon’s Tripoli: security
The deaths are the latest in multiple rounds of fighting between the Sunni neighbourhood of Bab al-Tebbaneh and the Alawite neighbourhood of Jabal Mohsen
Fahmy offers Cairo as venue for Syria opposition talks
Syrian opposition and regime representatives exchange accusations in Geneva II opening statements
New Beirut car bombing against Hezbollah kills 4
The blast took place on busy Al-Arid Street in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood, targeted by a suicide car bombing earlier this month.
Egypt heads to Geneva II
Egypt hopes for implementation of Geneva Communiqué, foreign ministry says Al-Assad’s future is for Syrians to decide
Syria photos prove mass torture by Assad regime: report
Syria denies torturing detainees.
Saudi rejects Iran’s participation in Syria talks
Iran, a key backer of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and Saudi Arabia’s regional arch foe, said Monday that it will attend the peace talks but without preconditions.
Four dead in clashes in Lebanon’s Tripoli
AFP- Four people have been killed in fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, where sectarian clashes linked to the Syrian conflict regularly break out, a security source said Monday. “Three people, a woman and two men, were killed in heavy clashes overnight in which heavy artillery and rockets were used,” the source told …
Mansour in Greece as part of first EU trip
Egypt and Greece seeking to enhance political and economic relations
US expects UN to withdraw Iran invite to Syria talks
AFP– Washington is in talks with the UN over the surprise invitation of Iran to Syria peace talks and expects the invite to be withdrawn, a US official said Sunday. Iran has “never endorsed the Geneva I communique” which calls for a transitional government in Syria and “we expect the invitation will be rescinded,” a …